I have been looking at C60 Olive Oil suppliers and am not sure which one to go with. Here's a summary of what I found so far.
SES:
SES has their own C60OO, which is made using their 99.95% C60. (https://sesres.com/C60-olive-oil.asp)
Normally one would think this would be a great product, because it's made by the manufacturer of the C60 using their purest product, but I spoke with them and I have doubts. First of all, they use ultrasound sonication to get the C60 to dissolve faster. I've previously read here that this may not form the same adducts we are looking for. Secondly, they filter using a 5 micron filter, and do see a lot of undissolved solids on the filter paper. This implies that a lot of clumps are getting through their process.
http://www.carbon60oliveoil.com
These guys posted here back in the day and said they were following Baati's protocol, including centrifugation and pressurized filtering with a 0.22 micron filter. This all sounds great, but they no longer state any of that on their website, they have no listed email address, and when I tried emailing them using an email address I found on their Facebook page, they didn't reply (after 2 weeks). So without verification, I have no idea what their current protocol is.
Vaughter Wellness
Vaugther has been a sometimes controversial participant here, and is probably one of the largest providers of C60OO (http://c60antiaging.com/). On the face of it, Vaugther's product should be fine because she says they get it to dissolve quickly by making a very fine powder and that they use the 0.22 micron filtering. On the other hand, she's trying for a higher concentration of C60OO than others get, and this makes me leery. I would like to know if there is detectable C60 on the filter after filtration because ideally there shouldn't be: that would mean it had all dissolved. I would prefer a slightly lower C60 concentration with no clumps, because the clumps are what have been shown, in some studies, to cause damage.
http://buckylabs.com/process.shtml
I found out about Buckylabs from Vaugther's site, where she disparages them as making the product in a kitchen. Again, they seem to be good given that they say they are using the 99.95% C60, stirring for 2 weeks and vacuum filtering. But what about that centrifuge? They claim to centrifuge each batch, but the machine they show uses tiny 1.5ml tubes, which makes me doubt they can really spin each batch. By the way, they have a video on their site of centrifugation which shows that it does actually work (although some people here had calculated that it shouldn't work at all). In their video, they show some undissolved C60 at the bottom of the centrifuge tubes.
Thoughts? Other providers? I know I could make this at home but I'm not ready to set that up yet and I would rather not be grinding potentially toxic C60 dust in my kitchen.
Edited by smithx, 02 June 2014 - 10:06 PM.